The Stock Market

Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy

I am a bit obsessive about watching the stock market. I have a pretty diverse portfolio and like to play it pretty safe. I like getting expert analysis of how current events will affect the markets I am invested in. I have made modest returns on my investments but as of late felt that it was time to get a little bit more risky. After all you know what they say, “The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward”. Yesterday while watching Direct TV Business, I got a great tip on a hot new emerging stock. After doing a bit of independent research, I came to the conclusions that this would be a good investment. I put a sizeable amount of my savings into this stock and was not disappointed. At first this stock stayed relatively quiet but then a month ago, just as predicted, this stock exploded! I now have enough money to send my kids to college and pay of my mortgage. Also, driving around in a 2012 Corvette is pretty nice too!

Out in service

My children loves going out in service. Few of the reasons why they love to go out in service is that they can see all kinds of little creepy-crawly creatures to play with and they get the chance to get out of our home. My daughter usually ignores the stroller and she’d rather want to walk on her shoes. Sometimes it takes forever for us to get to our destination because my daughter gets distracted with all kinds of things. She loves walking on the curves and hop at the end of it just like in the photo above.

Early @ work

My husband had to go to work early today because they will have a safety meeting. He said that he overheard one of his co-workers saying that the company will be using the audio conferencing services this year. My husband is working for a huge company. They have branches all over the America as well as Internal. He thought that maybe its best for the company to have this kind of service that way supervisors don’t have to travel afar just to bring the important message to the management and employees, which will help them save monetarily and time. My husband’s work is actually expanding and each year they have new public busses coming in. I hope that their paychecks will also increase not just the work itself.

In the mail

One of our store creditors sent me a new catalog of their newest products. They gave me a valentines day jewelry discounts. I am thinking whether I will take the offers or not. I’m not sure yet. Well, my husband just bought me a nice wrist watch and it was a little expensive and I am definitely happy with his new purchased. I think I will have to pass on this jewelry thing and put it on hold for now because I will be making a big purchase on something in a few weeks. But mind you friends, those jewelries were really cute and I would love to have it and add it to my jewelry collections.

Horseradish leaves

This kind of vegetable is very much popular in my hometown Philippines. We serve this kind of vegetable almost everyday in our meal, back then. As I got here in the United States of America I rarely see a fresh leaves in the Filipino stores here in our place. Whenever they have supplies of horseradish leaves in their vegetable counter, it'll be so expensive. I go for the cheap ones and that is the processed-frozen horseradish leaves, it taste as good as the fresh ones. And so, I rarely prepare this kind ingredient for our family’s meals and my Caucasian husband loves it. I didn’t know that there are some Filipinos in our neighborhood are planting this kind of vegetable until I seen it. We were doing our field service early morning and I happened to see this horseradish tree. I was excited and I took pictures of it.

Curious about e-cigarettes

I've been hearing the word e-cigarette for the longest time but haven't really dug deeper about it. Curious as I am, want to know what it's all about since more and more smokers are making their switch to e-cigarettes. We all know that traditional smoking is dangerous. It contains deadly chemicals that are very harmful to the health. No matter how serious they are to quit, they still struggle for smoking is the kind of addiction that is hard to break free. Then e-cigarette came. Accordingly, it is a good alternative because it only contains nicotine, compare to tobacco that has so many.

Another thing, they are also much cheaper because empty cartridges are refillable. It is also available in different flavors like cherry, java, vanilla, peach, and the classic tobacco. Blu is one particular brand. Accordingly, it has no tar, no tobacco, no ash, and no smell. Well, no one in the family smokes. It is against our beliefs and not to mention, it is bad to thehealth. However, for people that are addicted to tobacco cigarettes for years and struggling to quit they finally have a healthy alternative to their deadly addiction. But I wonder if it is healthy, then why would some in the government still tries to ban it? That's another story to find out.